German news portals quoted the former prime minister’s office as saying that Angela Merkel “spoke to the Secretary-General of the United Nations by phone last week and thanked her, but she did not accept her request.”
Antonio Guterres has asked the politician, who retired in December, to head the so-called Global Public Goods Advisory Board, MTI writes.
There is no generally accepted definition of the concept of global public goods. These goods generally include natural formations, intellectual creations and other achievements that affect the entire population of the world, such as the ozone layer, international aviation safety rules or disease caused by the new type of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) (Covid-19) Protection by vaccination .
The United Nations Secretary-General plans to form an advisory group of former heads of state or government to help the world improve cooperation with the international community on global public goods, such as the end of the coronary epidemic. The creation of the body is one of the main commitments of the former Portuguese Prime Minister to begin his second term as Secretary-General of the United Nations earlier this year.
After 16 years in government, Angela Merkel handed over her position to Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Schulz, on December 8 last year and has had no public program since. Former writer Brigitte Baumann said in the December 10 issue of Der Spiegel that they were planning a joint book on Merkel’s political life, which began in 1989. The former chancellor’s other plans are unknown to the German public.
